Mercutio's Quotes

#1. Mercutio: If love be rough with you, be rough with love;

William Shakespeare

#2. Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets."
Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.

William Shakespeare

#3. For Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
Staying for thine to keep him company:
Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

William Shakespeare

#4. All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#5. True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks.

Debasish Mridha

#6. They found themselves striding into the herald's square of a place called Mercutio before they could discuss whether it was nightingales or sparrows that sang so prettily in the woods.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.

Ingmar Bergman

#8. If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight.
Mercutio: And so did I.
Romeo: Well, what was yours?
Mercutio: That dreamers often lie.

William Shakespeare

#10. ROMEO: Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit
did I give you?
MERCUTIO: The slip, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?

William Shakespeare

#11. I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Robert Englund

#12. But he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself

John Milton

#13. Whatever. I'm pretty sure Mercutio was a vampire. He had the attitude, you know? He just never got a chance to show his fangs.

Kersten Hamilton

#14. For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

Tipper Gore

#15. You're a disease. And I'm the cure.

Sylvester Stallone

#16. I get a crystal-clear image of Holt as a modern-day Mercutio.

Leisa Rayven

#17. I am sick of love, I want power. I have had enough of being Romeo. I want to be Mercutio.
Solimano (Romeo) - to Jennifer

Jennifer Cox

#18. I think Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' would be my favorite role. I've never played it, but I would love to do it.

Rocky Carroll

#19. Pardon? Why, sir, I beg your pardon, for if that was pardon, then fists are love and nooses are kisses. You speak of duty? Duty is the rope that strangles me. Piety is a bed of broken glass. And family is the company of hateful demons.

Rachel Caine

#20. Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

William Shakespeare